This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised product and its substitutes. We study the market for over-the-counter (OTC) weight-loss products, a market in which deceptive advertising is rampant and products are generally...

The last two decades a shift in marketing, corporate strategy, organizational and market dynamics has been recorded. A series of corporate scandals like ENRON and others has shown that corporations have a significant impact on a number of stakeholders and particularly customers. The notion that...

A key problem in EU private law is actor heterogeneity. While special rules exist for certain subgroups of actors, for example consumers or retail investors, the members of these legal categories still exhibit vast differences in behaviour, degrees of rationality, vulnerability, and economic...

The article is a review of the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”), an initiative under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act. The program was meant as a lifeline for small businesses by offering forgivable loans. However, recent reports have indicated that...

Tourism businesses engage in strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) when they integrate responsible behaviors in their operational practices (Camilleri, 2015, 2019a; Carroll & Shabana, 2010; Porter & Kramer, 2006, 2011; Van Marrewijk, 2003; Vogel, 2005). Strategic CSR activities may usually improve...

As a disruptive technology, electric vehicles (EV) help tackle smoggy weather and to reduce the dependence on unsustainable oil imports, attracting great attention of China' government. Using China as a backdrop, this study examines how government incentive policies influence the adoption of...

Financial Inclusion is the process of ensuring access to financial services needed by society including vulnerable groups such as weaker sections and low income groups at an affordable cost in a fair and transparent manner. India still could not achieve the objective of Financial Inclusion...

Entrepreneurial business firms such as franchisors can enhance their network performance by attracting high-quality partners and preventing low-quality partners from joining the network. We draw on agency and transaction cost theories and the substantive literature on voluntary information...

Financial inclusion means providing basic banking sector services of banking sector at affordable prices to weaker sections of society. Financial Inclusion is an effort to include the excluded section of society under the formal financial services. Many researchers did their research on barriers...

An important concern is that algorithms can inadvertently discriminate against minority groups and reinforce existing inequality. Typically, the worry is that when classification algorithms are trained on a dataset that itself reflects bias this may reinforce bias. However, in the world of...